The Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives is currently working with a small team of researchers from Monash University's Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics on a project looking at the ways in which small community-based co
Read more…Museum of Liverpool exhibition about transgender icon
The Museum of Liverpool is to host a new major exhibition this September looking at the history of transgender people in Britain over the past 70 years, focusing on the experiences of one exception
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2SERs iconic GayWaves program has been preserved by the National Film and Sound archives thanks to a bequest by the show’s form
Now in their eighth year, the Honour Awards are an annual event which recognise outstanding achievements within or contributions to NSW's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community. The awards are also a gala fundraising event
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I never knew my great uncle Cecil Bengry. Affectionately known as Cic’, this bachelor uncle seems to have lived in the background of other peopl
October 17, 2014 by Mike Kelly
Drama and theater have long played an important role in student life at Amherst College. Our Dramatic Activities Collection contains evidence of student and faculty performances all the way back to the early
Read more…The Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives holds a wealth of comics and cartoons in the collection, including both published and original manuscript items, from Australia and overseas. These collections have been significantly supplemented recently thro
'I am proud of my homosexuality..', Gay Pride Week 1973, Photo by Rennie Ellis, courtesy Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive
GORDON DOAK Gay activist 22-8-1931 - 12-4-2015
Gordon Doak was a well-known figure in the formative years of the gay liberation m
Read more…Smithsonian accepts original trans pride flag
Today, Monica Helms, a transgender activist and Navy veteran, presented the original transgender pride flag created 15 years ago this month to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The fla
New online exhibition features first gay-positive report by a religious group:
Towards a Quaker View of Sex (1963)
The LGBT Religious Archives Network (www.lgbtran.org) has released a new online exhibition that portrays the dramatic story of 11 Britis
Read more…Staff Spotlights: Collecting Today’s Stories at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
What if I told you that the things around you – your home, your friends, yourself – could tell a story worth archiving? It might seem difficult
Read more…Not Not Over : Archival Engagements in Queer Feminist Art
Mathias Danbolt
The archive is also a place of dreams. -- Carolyn Steedman[1]
Justine Frank, The Stained Portfolio, drawing and gouache on paper. 33x38 cm, 1927-1928. Courtesy: Rosenfeld Gallery,
Read more…Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives' 2014 Annual Report
As the Archives enters its 37th year of activity, the Committee is ever more conscious of the value of our collection, and we are pleased to say that we continue to grow in size and accessibility
Read more…A recent research query on the extent of Australian photographic portraiture documenting HIV/AIDS during the 1980s and 1990s prompted me, as such specific queries often do, to explore the ALGA's collections in areas I was less familiar with. It also
Read more…In this BUMPER edition of the Archives' bulletin:
The Un-Straight Museum – Live Broadcasts
On Friday 13th & Saturday 14th June, as part of the Un-Straight Museum Conference, Homotopia Arts broadcast 5 events live as part of the conference.
Remembering Melbourne’s HIV/AIDS History
Words by Mick Roe
[ACT Up D-Day demonstration outside Flinders St Station, 6 June 1991], unidentified photographer,
courtesy Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives.
In July close to 18,000 delegates will meet in Me
Read more…The Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives' 14th Australian Homosexual History Conference, presented by Pride History Group in conjunction with the Australian Centre for Public History, will be held on November 28-29 at the University of Technology, Syd
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